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Why are we using yellow type on a dark background?
The purpose is to provide a greater contrast between the letters and the background so that they are easier to read for those DeafBlind with some vision.
BURUNDI:
An ad-hoc team of experts went to Burundi to provide training to Deaf and DeafBlind students, teachers, administrators, parents, Deaf leaders and interpreters.
According to the Director of a school for the Deaf in Burundi which had 11 DeafBlind students, parents who have DeadBlind children hide their children in their homes and others are reluctant to send them to school because there is no specific school or educational program for DeafBlind students in Burundi. Other schools hesitate to accept DeafBlind children because they do not have the proper facilities and the training to teach them.
Tanzania:
(image description: a room with many children at a Deaf school watching a movie. In the front near the screen is a male DeafBlind student sitting by himself.)
Testing translation for children at Buguruni School for the Deaf in Dar es Salam, Tanzania. Sitting in front close to the screen is a DeafBlind student.
(image description: picture is an excerpt from a video. There are two female students in the foreground with younger male students in the background. The female students are using Tactile Moshi-Arusha Sign Language.)
The student on the left is DeafBlind. The student on the right is Deaf. The translation team had been testing translation for children in Moshi-Arusha Sign Language. While the videos were playing the Deaf student provided interpretation for her DeafBlind friend.
(image description: picture is a scene from the movie "Feeling Through" and shows the two lead characters sitting on a bench at a bus stop.)
The movie is based on the real life experience of the writer and director, Doug Roland, who late one night met a DeafBlind man, Artemio, on the streets of New York. Artemio was holding a sign saying he was Deaf and Blind and wanted help to cross the street. Roland ended up spending an hour communicating with Artemio.
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Protactile
(Image description: picture show a close-up of hand of two people, a man and a woman. They are signing Protactile.)
Oregon Public Radio interviewed with Jelica Nuccio. She has been one of the driving forces in getting DeafBlind people to communicate with each other. Previously each DeafBlind person had an interpreter. Nuccio became the first DeafBlind director of the DeafBlind Service Center in Seattle. It was that direct communication that led to the development of Protactile, which is a vastly different language than Tactile ASL. ASL is a visual language. Tactile ASL is ASL adapted for people with reduced vision but it is still follows ASL grammar. Protactile is not a visual language. It is based on touch.
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